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Re: asm.e questions

• Posted by Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> Oct 26, 1999
• 658 views

----- Original Message -----
From: Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: asm.e questions



> Kat,
>
> What is the relevance of this discussion?

Someone asked about speed in getting data off the hard drive into memory, i
think. I said tell the hard drive ahead of time to read it and have it
already in memory by the time it's needed.

I have several apps which run two or more instances of a non-threadable
language, and they are linked together with dde (for now) so, overall, the
languages are doing more than one thing at a time (well, time-sliced,
anyways),,, and i can prove this by locking one down with an infinite loop
and watching the others keep going. It's definitely non-linear. So a high
level coding shortcut for whoever asked about how to get the data faster is
to have instance #1 of Eu to start another instance of Eu and tell the
instance #2 to go get the data from the hd and put it in memory, then have
#2 tell #1 it's location,, or #1 tells #2 what to do with it,, or send it to
#1 from #2, or whatever else you can think of.

Without getting into a discussion of hardware with you, i was trying to
offer help to someone who asked for ideas. I'm dropping this thread now.

Kat